US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Aug. 11 for "Text message de-escalation system" (Michigan, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,370, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Text message de-escalation system" was invented by Keith Weston (Canton, Mich.), John Robert Van Wiemeersch (Novi, Mich.) and Brendan F. Diamond (Naples, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing text message communications in vehicles using artificial intelligence is provided. Communication metrics are sent from a server to a plurality of vehicles, defining indications of text message events that may affect driver and communication effectiveness. The server receives, from the vehicles, aggregated text message data and high-fidelity text messa...